Can international institutions help create more cooperative and peaceful relations between
states? If so, how? And what motivates states to create meaningful institutions in the first …

International courts, like domestic courts, protect liberal limits on majoritarianism. This
sometimes puts these courts in a position to protect the property rights of the “corrupt elites” …

This book theorizes the ways in which states that are presumed to be weaker in the
international system use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to advance their security and …

Home to more than 1.2 billion people, living in 54 recognized states, speaking around 3,000
languages, Africa is a diverse and complex continent made up of states which differ in …

A number of studies on sanction effectiveness have highlighted the importance of regime
type and how it affects the sensitivity of sanctioned states (target) to the economic costs of …

At the start of the twenty-first century the story of Africa's engagement with international law
was one of marked commitment and meaningful contributions. Africa pioneered new areas …

This article explores an understudied dimension of the International Criminal Court 'Africa
Problem'–low contestedness. In a world of enduring cultural differences, norm contestation …

Within international relations the normative agency of African actors is often downplayed or
derided. This article develops the concept of bricolage to offer a novel understanding of …

Abstract By examining the African Union (AU)'s contestation of the International Criminal
Court (ICC)'s cases against former or sitting Heads of State (HoS), this article analyzes how …

The Rome Treaty for an International Criminal Court (ICC) provides for the establishment of
an international court with jurisdiction over genocide, war crimes, and crimes against …